完形填空。      It was already late when we set out for the next town,    1   according to the map was about fifteen miles
away on the other side of the    2  . There we felt    3   that we would find a bed    4   the night. Darkness fell
soon after we left the village, but luckily we met    5   as we drove fast along the narrow winding road that 
  6   the hills. As we climbed    7  , it became colder and rain began to fall,    8   it difficult at times to see the
road. I asked John, my companion, to drive more    9  .
     After we had traveled for about twenty miles, there was still no sign of the town which was   10  on the
map. We were beginning to get   11 . Then without warning the car stopped. A quick   12  showed that we
had run out of petrol (汽油). Although we had little food with us, we decided to   13  the night in the car.
     Our meal was soon over. I tried to go to sleep at once,   14  John, who was a   15  sleeper, got out of the
car after a few minutes and went for a walk   16  the hills. Soon he came back. From the top of the hill he
had seen, in the valley below, the   17  of the town we were looking for. We at once unloaded (卸) all our
luggage (行李) and with a great effort (努力),   18  to push the car to the top of the hill. Then we went back
to the luggage, loaded the car again and set off down the hill.   19 . less than a quarter of an hour we were in
the town, where we found a   20  quite easily.

(     )1. A. which      (     )2. A. rivers     (     )3. A. surprised  (     )4. A. at         (     )5. A. everybody  (     )6. A. got to     (     )7. A. taller     (     )8. A. getting    (     )9. A. certainly  (     )10. A. marked    (     )11. A. excited   (     )12. A. attention (     )13. A. spend     (     )14. A. since     (     )15. A. quick     (     )16. A. across    (     )17. A. lights    (     )18. A. ought     (     )19. A. For       (     )20. A. policeman

B. it          B. hills     B. afraid            B. in    B. somebody     B. arrived        B. higher    B. thinking     B. carefully      B. set       B. worried    B. operation      B. live        B. though      B. fast       B. through     B. map          B. tried       B. In          B. friend

C. where           C. towns            C. pleased         C. through           C. nobody         C. led to               C. lower      C. causing         C. slowly            C. built           C. cold            C. examination   C. spare           C. so               C. poor            C. down           C. bus               C. succeeded     C. Since            C. hotel

D. that            D. villages        D. sure              D. for               D. anybody       D. belonged to    D. faster          D. making            D. surely                D. drawn           D. warm        D. information                   D. stay              D. but            D. heavy        D. up               D. situation         D. managed        D. At                D. cinema